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   Night Owl (nightowl@tech.lgbt)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 20:48:14 JST Night Owl

   When you download a ROM you inadvertently contribute to the preservation of the games. Unlike most of the milquetoast video channels says. When you download the Rom you immortalize them. There is no way that companies can erase the copies you save, so keep downloading those Mother 3 ROMs! They can only intervene in the medium, and finding it can be tricky but not impossible.

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     mybarkingdogs (mybarkingdogs@tech.lgbt)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 20:48:51 JST mybarkingdogs

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     @nightowl THIS. I wish more people understood that maintaining extant downloaded versions of *anything* is the only way to preserve it. Strict obedience to copyright systems and only accepting things you're not allowed to own a permanent copy of ensures they will disappear, with *no* way of ever accessing them again.

     While, if you *have* the file(s) somewhere on a media where they can be retrieved, you have a primary copy. Original design before any AI-design remakes, pre-censorship (even in the cases where the censorship is good/necessary, it's important to at least document that it happened and WHY it was), etc etc.